Arno Salters and Mathematic Paint a “Different Blue”

Like some love child born of Devo by way of OK Go, this video for French pop project General Elektriks combines camp performance with complex production magic (motion control and ambitious compositing) to deliver a whole lot of fun.

EP Rebecca Rice at Mathematic in Paris: “We first created an animatic to plan out the shoot and the band’s actions, then motion control was used to replicate the same movements over 43 different passes.

“Some of the passes we were able to use green screens that followed the band members around.

“The longest part was combining all the passes, doing rotoscoping and finalization. A lot was done in Flame and roto in Nuke.”